Attitude. That's what separates the PDML from, well, the rest of society, I think. Not necessarily good or bad attitude. Just "different". I mean we have people yearning for fluorescent chalk, building metaphorical shrines, applying for Canadian citizenship and enjoying the beatings (so to speak). There's even one known case of living in Scotland, for crying out loud! We're fanatical, delusional compulsive people who enjoy playing with cameras. Even taking photographs with them, sometimes. The only things we have in common with polite society are hatreds of computers and Adobe.

And so for the new year we invite you to find your very own metaphorical "fluorescent chalk". Or literal. I don't judge (that's why my charm school is such a raging success). Enjoy the 2019 list!

I love giving Instagram and their stupid minions 20% of a high five.

— Bruce Walker

I'd never say anything about your taste, mostly because I haven't tasted you, and probably wouldn't want to.

— P. J. Alling

Disappointment is the sole purpose of expectations.

— Roger Cicala (LINK)

Have you ever had a fun idea for photographing vegetables, but then couldn't find your fluorescent chalk?

— Larry Colen

My first step will be to build a shrine, metaphorical or not, where I can make the necessary offerings to invite my photography muse back.

— Jostein Øksne

Sooner or later my health or financial resources or both will run out and I will fall back to careful reviews of past adventures.

— Stan Halpin

In many ways, Mark Hogancamp is a typical Pentaxian: a fanatical, delusional compulsive who plays with dolls, lives in a fantasy world, collects high heel shoes, is afraid of women and talks to people who are not there. But he takes interesting images.

— Dan Matyola

Bob Walkden: Photography is meant to be enjoyable, not a duty.
Cotty: Some of us enjoy the beatings.

— Cotty & Bob Walkden

You'll never get an invitation from Magnum with that attitude.

— Mike Wilson

If it wasn't Samuel Langhorne Clemens, it was Winston Spencer Churchill. Probably both. At the same time. Separated by the Atlantic.

— Mike Wilson

I need the Mark Roberts School of Charm bad....

— Cotty

Sometimes I really just HATE computers.

— John Sessoms

There are many Canadians here in Maui for the winter. I am warning them that they can expect many Americans, Brits and French to be applying for Canadian citizenship soon.

— Dan Matyola

Some of my fingers lean right, some lean left. All of them hurt. Kind of like the USA.

— Ann Sanfedele

Blame Adobe. It always works for me.

— Mike Wilson

I see we're now entering the generalized, universal, mostly inaccurate/inappropriate grouching stage.

— Godfrey DiGiorgi

The problem isn't a lack of service, the problem is that EarthLink uses the animal husbandry definition of the word.

— Larry Colen

There's not much discussion of Pentax gear on this list, but bring up cars and the guys all jump in.

— Joseph Tainter

Back in the day, I squeezed into a pressure suit just like John Glenn's so we could soar to just above 60,000 feet asl.

— Dan Matyola

That's the plan... not entirely sure that my cardiovascular system is fully on board with it though.

— Bob Walkden

I didn't win any prizes, so my record for not taking the contest too seriously remains unblemished.

— John Sessoms

The idea of all my work being taken hostage by a company whose business model is a glorified protection racket just doesn't appeal to me any longer.

— Ralf Radermacher

I hope quitting Adobe doesn't prove to be as big a hassle as quitting America OnLine used to be.

— John Sessoms

Now we know why women run away from me like I'm a particularly aggressive, ambulatory strain of Ebola.

— Doug Brewer

There is a lot to be said for the philosophy of 'make new mistakes'. If you never screw up, you aren't pushing your boundaries hard enough to really learn.

— Larry Colen

I no longer take for granted that my iPad has a working keyboard. It makes a pretty good stand for the device though.

— Bill Robb

I almost never lack for inspiration. Sometimes skill, often taste, but rarely for something to photograph.

— Larry Colen

Sometimes you are prepping for a shot and something unexpected happens. If you have your wits about you, you grab what may turn out to be one of your all time favorite images, thanks to a visiting duck.

— Doug Brewer

And for only the second time in recorded history, I actually agree with Peter Alling.

— Cotty

Sometimes the world is just funny.

— Godfrey DiGiorgi

Holy hydrangeas batman - I've met and filmed that shed!

— Cotty

This shot has no particular artistic merit.

— Alan Cole

I've nosed around quite a few camera clubs in my life and the percentage of overachievers here is about an order of magnitude greater than in the outside world.

— Mike Wilson

What part of starving artist don't you understand? Other than calling me an artist that is.

— Larry Colen

I looked ultra hard in all these pics, and they're all full of lovely flowers and stuff, but couldn't find a single nekkid lady.

— Cotty

The thing that worries me most is that I understood all of that.

— John Sessoms

The Irish word 'cac' means excrement; 'Cac tarbh' is that which emanates from the transom of a bull.

— Nolan Hinshaw

I live in Scotland. Rain is real.

— Pat Temmerman

Portraits are all about capturing emotion.

— Paul Sorenson

If people followed instructions, I'd start to wonder if I was on some other list :-)

— Brian Walters

The images that bend the theme are often the most interesting

— Dan Matyola

I'd be happy if a lot of my sharp photos were as nice as your blurry one.

— Larry Colen

Ignorance is sometimes bliss. Mostly, though, it's just ignorance.

— Ctein (LINK)

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